Released: October 11, 1993
Songwriter: Neil Finn
Producer: Martin Glover
My life is a house
You crawl through the window
Slip across the floor and into the reception room
You enter the place of endless persuasion
Like a knock on the door when there's ten or more things to do
Who is that calling?
You, my companion
Run to the water on a burning beach
And it brings me relief
Pass through the walls
To find my intentions
Circle round in a strange hypnotic state
I look into space
There is no connection
A million points of life
And a conversation I can't face
Cast me off one day
To lose my inhibitions
Sit like a lapdog on a matron's knee
With the nails on your feet
I woke up the house
Stumbled in sideways
The lights went on and everybody screamed suprise
The savage review, it left me gasping
But it warms my heart to see that you can do it too
Total surrender
Your touch is so tender
Your skin is like water
On a burning beach
And it brings me relief
And it brings me relief
And it brings me relief
You crawl through the window
Slip across the floor and into the reception room
You enter the place of endless persuasion
Like a knock on the door when there's ten or more things to do
Who is that calling?
You, my companion
Run to the water on a burning beach
And it brings me relief
Pass through the walls
To find my intentions
Circle round in a strange hypnotic state
I look into space
There is no connection
A million points of life
And a conversation I can't face
Cast me off one day
To lose my inhibitions
Sit like a lapdog on a matron's knee
With the nails on your feet
I woke up the house
Stumbled in sideways
The lights went on and everybody screamed suprise
The savage review, it left me gasping
But it warms my heart to see that you can do it too
Total surrender
Your touch is so tender
Your skin is like water
On a burning beach
And it brings me relief
And it brings me relief
And it brings me relief
more tracks from the album
Together Alone (Deluxe Edition)
- Locked Out
- Private Universe (Home Demo)
- The Same Language as Me (Live)
- Tail of a Comet (Live)
- Distant Sun (Writing Demo)
- I Am in Love (Band Demo)
- Fingers of Love (Band Demo)
- Fingers of Love (Alternative Studio Take)
- Locked Out (Zen Mix)
- Newcastle Jam (Studio Version)
- Convent Girls (Studio Version)
- Zen Roxy
- Fingers of Love (Writing Demo)
- Blue Smoke (Home Demo)
- In My Command
- Nails in My Feet
- Black and White Boy
- Kare Kare
- Pineapple Head
- Walking on the Spot
- Together Alone
- Distant Sun
- Private Universe
- Skin Feeling
- Fingers of Love
- Catherine Wheels
- Black and White Boy (Early Rough Mix)
From the albums
- Together Alone (1993)
- The Very Very Best of Crowded House (2010)
- Together Alone (Deluxe Edition) (2016)
Crowded House popular songs
- Don’t Dream It’s Over
- Weather with You
- Fall at Your Feet
- Better Be Home Soon
- Mean to Me
- Four Seasons in One Day
- Distant Sun
- It’s Only Natural
- Twice If You’re Lucky
- When You Come
- Love This Life
- Never Be the Same
- Nails in My Feet
- Say That Again
- Heaven That I’m Making
- I Am in Love
- Don’t Stop Now
- Black and White Boy
- People Are Like Suns
- Help Is Coming
- All I Ask
- Pineapple Head (live)
- There Goes God
- So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star